Month: October 2016

School Bus Safety Rules for Kindergarten Students- Part I [Infographics]

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Every child should have proper awareness on school bus safety. As a younger rider, they may have so many confusions and tensions about road safety. Hence, it is your responsibility to teach and transmit knowledge of basic road safety rules and regulations to your kids. 

When you give advices continuously to your children, they get frustrated and irritated. One of the best ways to convey the idea of safety in children is to show and demonstrate those safety rules in front of them.  There are certain safety rules that a child should know about and follow for their own safety.

School Bus Safety for Kindergarten Students- Part I

As a parent, you can be the most influential teacher and this can help you greatly in persuading your child to follow certain safety etiquette. You can spend some time with your child to discuss about safety and explain about its importance. As a result of this, your child  become more vigilant on the road. 

The greatest risk for your child is not riding the school bus, but nearing or leaving the bus, thus children should be cautious when they are around the school bus. Hence, it is better for them to follow certain essential safety rules and regulations, so that they can enjoy a secure and delightful journey.

What Parents Can Do To Teach Children About Road Safety

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Child road safety is a topic of great concern, especially on Indian roads. It’s a fact that road accidents impact everyone, including children. And so, it is crucial that parents should teach their children how to use the roads safely. Whether as a pedestrian, cyclist or as a passenger, or even in a car or on public transport, kids should be taught to stay safe.

They should also learn the importance of where to play safely, away from traffic and roads. Here are certain points that you, as a parent can teach your kids about road safety.

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Teach the Basic Principles of Road Safety

The right road crossing procedure – It is crucial that the kids should be taught a step by step way to cross the road safely.  Steps may include staying one step back from the footpath before crossing, looking in all directions for approaching traffic and crossing only when it is safe to cross the road. 

Kids should also be familiar with pedestrian (zebra) crossing and pedestrian traffic lights. In roads where there are no crossings available, they should be trained to choose a safe place. The place should be the one where vehicles and traffic signals are clearly visible. Make them familiar with traffic signals. Teach them to only cross when they can see the green WALK sign and never cross when they can see a red DON’T WALK sign.

Awareness about headphones – Parents should teach them about the disadvantage of using headphones when using roads. Listening to music or talking via phone while crossing may make it difficult to hear oncoming traffic, resulting in accidents. In case if they would like to listen to music while walking, encourage them to keep music at a reasonable volume and only use one headphone.

Let them know about driveway dangers – Learn them about the importance of being careful around driveways and ask them to stop at driveways when they are walking to check if there are cars coming in or out. They should be aware about playing behind cars. Teach them that while reversing the car, they should make sure to check there are no children or any other pedestrians nearby.

Bike safety at roads – Most bike accidents that involve kids are due to lack of experience and careless driving. So, while teaching bike riding, make sure your child learns it on the road itself under the supervision of an experienced adult. Supervision is essential until he or she understand the road rules and can exhibit good bicycle control. Teach them the importance of wearing helmets while riding and how it can save their lives in an accident.

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Safety with other wheeled devices – Other wheeled devices such as roller skates and skateboards needs to be used safely on road. If your kids are using them, make sure they are traveling within the recommended speed limit. They must be taught to keep to the far left side when traveling on a road or footpath. Also ensure they are wearing a helmet, shoes and other protective clothing such as knee and elbow pads and wrist guards to prevent injuries.

Cycling safety concerns – Before riding on roads, children should be given proper cycle training. The training should also include practical on-road cycling under supervision, thus obtaining real world experience. They should be forced to use cycle helmet at all times. Show the latest news that comes in media, where other kids are saved from accidents by wearing one.

Make them environment-friendly – While usage of cars and other private vehicles are increasing, you should also teach your kids of the environmentally-friendly modes of transport such as walking, cycling, car pooling and catching public transport. Make them understand how these modes can benefit the nature. 

Child road safety is crucial for your children’s freedom, and development, of course they should be trained to use their roads with respect.
 

Dubai Taxi Corporation Introduced Smart Buses with Latest Technologies

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Dubai Taxi Corporation (DTC) introduced smart buses with latest technologies. DTC took this initiative for making school transport service of the Dubai government excellent and safe. It has been reported that about 3000 students from eight schools participated in the service.

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Mohammed Said Al Dhuhori, who is the Director of DTC's School Transport, said that new buses will be installed with surveillance cameras, which is connected to monitors of the DTC's Control Center.

The cameras can track each and every movement of student activities, including sitting and descending from the school bus. Also, he added that buses will be fitted with GPS tracking system which gives instant notification to and from school to parents.

For more safety, every school buses have also fitted a switch, which needs to be disabled by driver whenever the bus stops. This helps drivers  to check whether students have left the school bus.

Al Dhuhori added that, for getting this school bus transport service, one can either dial DTC's Customer Service Center number 042080555 or visit any school's customer service staff. He also informed that smart buses have been chosen as the bus that obey various guidelines issued by the Public Transport Agency and world's highest school transportation service.

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TrackSchoolBus Crosses 1 Lakh Website Visitors!

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Thanks to everyone who has visited our website!

What started as a simple blog in July 2014 has over one lakh visitors today. We hope this is just the beginning and we’d be able to offer valuable safety tips, information and solutions to people around the world.

People across the globe are aware of the safety issues surrounding school buses and has reached out to us with various tips and requests for safety software such as gps software. Safety software makes a huge difference in terms of preventing accidents and other safety issues. They also help school managements run their bus fleets quite efficiently.

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The first 6 months were pure struggle as there were hardly any visitors. But strong efforts continued to flow in from the team of writers, seos and designers with a single focus on providing maximum value content. Their efforts worked wonders as the online audience slowly began to make the website a destination for valuable school bus tracking information.

Once again, thanks to all our readers, and to our marketing team – Jointviews

11 Essential Road Safety Rules and Tips for Children

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As a parent, you cannot completely control your child once they become old enough to go all around by themselves either via school bus or via bicycle.  You can imagine a lot of wild and dangerous situations that your child is exposed to, especially, when they are alone.

A simply gully cricket game can put your child in danger as they run across the road to retrieve a ball without looking for vehicles. Even a leisurely journey with your children can be hazardous for them if they haven’t properly put their seat belt on.

Better safe than sorry!

Knowing and understanding about various safety rules can help you guide your children and protect them irrespective of how complicated a situation is. The following are certain road safety rules and information that you must be aware of.

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1. Hold hands while crossing the road 

You can ask your small child to hold the hands of parents, siblings or guardian while crossing the road.

2. Say no to running

Children often have a tendency to run across the road instead of holding elder’s hands. You can warn your children that if they go running on the road, they will not be able to play further with their friends.

3. Always look left and right

When your child grows older and becomes a teenager, you can allow them to cross the roads by themselves. Always remember the golden rule- “look to the left and right of the road at a green traffic light” even though it is a one-way road.

4. Try to cross at the zebra crossings

This is one of the simplest safety tips that you can make your kid follow. Crossing the street at the zebra crossing is the right way to be followed by every one of us. In addition to this, you will get more peace of mind, if there is the presence of a traffic police along with your child.

5. Aware of each traffic sign

Teach your children about various traffic signs and its significance. Here follows some signs and its meaning:

Red light signifies “stop” 

Yellow signifies “ stop, watch, and be safe”, it is a kind of warning that red light is about to appear soon

Green signifies “Go”

6. Always walk on the pavement

Usually, children learn anything through an example; if you show them to use the pavement and not walk on the street, they will be able to understand it well and form it as a habit.

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7. Confront the traffic

This is the rule that you always try to ignore, but is having paramount importance among other safety rules. The magnitude of traffic is increasing day by day. Always teach your children to walk in such a way that they can properly see the other vehicles that are coming their way.

When your child sees the traffic nearing them, it is possible for them to reduce the risk of accidents and injuries. Hence it is one of the essential road safety rules that your child may never forget in their life.

8.  Play within boundaries

As a parent, you should not allow your child to play beyond an explicit boundary. You can identify areas which are near to road or have heavy traffic and fix it as “ No playing zones” for your children. Also, you can advise them not to try to pick a toy or ball rolling out into the street, without any adult supervision.

9. Wear a helmet

You must make sure that your child wears a helmet while cycling. You must ask them to always wear a helmet, even though they are cycling within the designated boundary. This will help them to be safer in life.

10. Use bright or reflective clothes

Usually, you may not allow your children to go after dark. But, if a situation occurs where they must go out, you can make them wear bright or reflective clothes. This will help drivers to recognize them in the dark and avoid unnecessary crashes.

11. Be safe than feel sorry

Just like you tell your children to follow other rules, you should also tell them to be extra cognizant of everything they do on the street. You could tell them to use the seat belt, whenever they enter a car and not to use earphones or listen to music while riding a bicycle.

All the above road safety rules and tips can make a great difference in the safety of your children.

10 Strategies that Keep Your Children Safe on Road

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Even with the rapid technological advancement, it is a sad truth that your children are not safe on the road. Your child may sometimes get lost or severely injured in the heavy traffic existing today. Road accidents or injuries may result in endless suffering and grief; and ultimately leading to economic destitution for the concerned families and friends.

Often, students become the victim of this man-made disaster. As a responsible citizen, it is your responsibility to make genuine efforts for student road safety. Safer roads for all, means safer roads for your children.

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Here are the ten strategies that keep your children safe on the road:

1. Keep your Vehicle Speed under Control

    Speed is the major reason for every road related accidents and injuries. Overspeed of vehicles near the school area can put student road safety at risk. The following are certain strategies that help to reduce vehicle speed:

  • You can set and enforce speed limits suitable for each road type
  • When there are more pedestrians on the road, you can try to drive your vehicle at a speed of 30km/hr
  • By using automatic speed cameras, you will be able to set speed limits
  • Improving roads by using features such as traffic lights, speed bumps, signboards etc.  helps you to limit the vehicle speed

2. Avoid Drinking and Driving

    When you drink and drive, remember that you are posing a huge safety risk on your children as pedestrians, cyclists or passengers. Alcohol consumption can usher into road crash, injury, or even death.  When blood alcohol concentration(BAC) is above 0.04 g/dl, risk of crashes also rises abnormally. 

  • Some of the strategies that can be employed to avoid drinking and driving are as follows:
  • You can set separate BAC limit for young drivers as well as older drivers. For young drivers, you can set 0.02 g/dl and for older drivers, it should be 0.05 g/dl
  • By sobriety checkpoints and breath testing, you will be able to enforce drinking and driving laws
  • You will be able to control the sale of alcohol by putting a minimum purchase age and adjusting their hours of operation
  • Restrict the marketing of alcohol to children

3. Making Use of Helmets while Riding a Two-Wheeler

    In order to reduce the risk of head injuries in accidents, you can advise your children to wear a helmet whenever they start off a journey in two-wheelers. It was found in a survey that use of helmets:

  •  can help you to reduce head injuries by 69% 
  • prevent death by 40%
  • will help you to reduce risk of serious head injury by more than 70%

Here follows some strategies which will help you to promote the usage of helmets at the time of riding a two wheeler:

Directing and imposing motorcycle helmet laws

  •  You will be able to provide standards for the manufacture of a helmet and give more priority for kids' helmets
  • Ensure accessibility and affordability of helmets to those who need them
  • You can take initiatives like distributing free or discounted helmets to those children who cannot afford them

4. Curbing Children in Vehicles

    Restraints can prevent your children from serious injuries caused by crashes. Some of the examples of restraints include booster seats, common seat belts, infant car seats, and child car seats. These are installed on the basis of age, weight, and height of your child. Booster seats can reduce 59% of injuries caused due to road traffic crashes.

The following are certain strategies you can adopt to increase the usage of restraints:

  • You can make child restraints laws, mandatory for all private vehicles
  • Standardization of child restraint manufacture
  • Make child restraints available and reasonable for all those who need them
  • To assure safety of your children, you can persuade manufacturers to have plug-in attachments
  •  Awareness classes can be conducted regarding the use of restraints and to promote child restraint loan schemes 

5. Improving Visibility of Children

    Seeing and being seen is very important to road safety, especially, in the case of children, who are more unsafe than elders. 

Some of the strategies given below will help to improve visibility of your children:

  • Make your children wear bright clothes when they are out on the road
  • Advise your children to always accompany adult people 
  • You can make use of headlamps along with front, rear, and wheel reflectors
  • Improve street lighting

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6.  Ameliorating Road Infrastructure

    By modifying and building new road infrastructure, you will be able to improve student road safety and reduce the risk of accidents. 

Here follows certain strategies you can follow to improve road infrastructure:

  • Traffic lights, speed humps, zebra crossings, street lighting, flyovers, etc. are some of the essential measures you can espouse for improving road infrastructure
  • Certain mechanisms such as raised platforms for ramblers, lanes specially made for pedestrians and cyclists, construction of median barriers etc. can be implemented for improved road infrastructure
  •  You can make car free areas for enhancing the safety of pedestrians
  • Launch school safety zones
  •  For superior safety of your children, select play zones away from road
  • Financing for safe public transport to ensure your child's safety

7. Altering Vehicle Design

    Vehicle designs have a substantial role to play in guaranteeing student road safety. Most of the vehicle safety measures have the potential to safeguard your children. 

Certain strategies you can follow in vehicle design that directly contribute to student road safety include:

  •  Compulsory installation of energy absorbing crumple zones in your vehicles
  • Reconstruction of your vehicle fronts to make it more “pedestrian friendly”
  • Installation of the alcohol interlock system to prevent drinking habit of drivers. Mounting alarms and cameras inside the bus for monitoring your children constantly

8. Minimizing Risks for Young Drivers

    Young drivers are a major reason for most of the crashes. Rash driving, carelessness, and alcohol consumption can hinder your child's safety. The following strategies can have a remarkable impact on the safety of your children:

  • Reducing BAC levels for young drivers
  • You can designate an adult driver to teach young drivers
  • Strictly tell them not to go for night time driving
  • Warn them that you will not tolerate any criminal offense or bad habits

9. Proffering Genuine care for Injured Children

    Providing right emergency care and recovery services at the right time is the first step you have to take for improving road safety of children. Some of the strategies by which you can improve the care of injured children are given below:

  • Impart education to teachers as well as caretakers to take immediate care and 
  • facilitate transportation services to those children who are injured
  • Training hospital authorities to deliver basic treatment needs for injured children
  • Equipping emergency vehicles with adequate medical facilities and supplies
  • Making a hospital as child-friendly as possible
  • Enhancing access to counselling services for directing your children at the time of injury

10.   Administering Children around Roads

    As you know, young children will not have the ability to evaluate risk awaiting them.  You have a great role to play in guiding children around roads. They should be aware of what is happening around them.  Appropriate guidance can avoid the chance of causing accidents to your children.
 

   ̋ The future of a country is its young people. We cannot afford to lose our children to road traffic crashesˮ

It is possible to avert road related accidents and injuries. Mostly students become the victims as they have little awareness regarding road safety. Thus, it is each of your responsibility to protect students and give them appropriate guidance at the right time.